noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
current
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I've been with my current boyfriend for four years and we have a daughter.
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When Mr Horton is on hall patrol, he always witnesses one of my hallway scenes with a current boyfriend .
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Sally is 22 and has been with her current boyfriend for three years.
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When she met her current boyfriend and fell pregnant, she had not been able to confide in them.
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My current boyfriend knows there's something wrong but is losing patience with me.
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Your current boyfriend feels concerned, but was not around when the problems began so may not feel able to help.
ex
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Now I've met another man but he's her ex boyfriend , although they have my feelings for each other.
new
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Before they split up, Stroud had already moved her new boyfriend , Mark Evans into the house as a lodger.
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My new boyfriend , Raul, used to be his boyfriend last year.
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We aren't going to tell your new boyfriend anything.
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Erik was killed Thursday; police are questioning Dawood and looking for her new boyfriend .
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After a while my mum's new boyfriend moved in, and he eventually became my mum's fiancé.
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It would serve him right if Jorge were my new boyfriend .
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Her new boyfriend was a young businessman and drove a Sprite and Pam thought he was a good catch.
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His mom has a new boyfriend .
old
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It was Stephen, Sarah's old boyfriend .
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It was about an old boyfriend - before you, my dear - when I was fat and lacking confidence.
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For drama, the old boyfriend shows up with blackmail on his mind.
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Ann had met an old boyfriend , and she and Charles had been able to discuss their feelings about this without animosity.
serious
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He's my first serious boyfriend and Mum and Dad like him.
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I don't go in for serious boyfriends .
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Dave had been Luce's first serious boyfriend .
steady
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In any case, life was much too enjoyable to think about steady boyfriends .
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The first year at university I had a very steady boyfriend who was doing a similar course as me but mechanical engineering.
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It would have to be with a steady boyfriend .
■ VERB
get
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Dennis, am I ever going to get a boyfriend ?
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Sponsor her, share my income, raise her child, get rid of her boyfriend ?!
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She gets some pretty cute boyfriends .
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Fair enough, perhaps, but your ex-wife had got a rich new boyfriend .
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I wouldn't mind, but I can't get a bloody boyfriend !
live
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I left to live with a boyfriend , who turned out to be a bad lot.
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Still actively politically, she now lives with her boyfriend in a one-bed apartment in Atlanta.
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In 1989 T. moved to live with her paternal grandmother and a year later she went to live with her boyfriend .
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Three months later she left her parents and went to live with her boyfriend Peter.
meet
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Ann had met an old boyfriend , and she and Charles had been able to discuss their feelings about this without animosity.
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She met her live-in boyfriend on-line.
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She met her boyfriend Barry in a pub two years ago.
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She met Michael, her boyfriend , when she was fourteen and he was nineteen.
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When she met her current boyfriend and fell pregnant, she had not been able to confide in them.
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I met my first boyfriend when I was in the fifth year at school, and we were together for six years.
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They can't even meet their own boyfriends outside the club-they've got to go right outside the area.
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Many hours may be spent daydreaming about meeting the ideal boyfriend and falling in love.
sleep
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But in general, sleeping with your boyfriend is a relatively accepted thing.
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I think it wasn't seen as good or bad to sleep with your boyfriend .
tell
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I told my boyfriend but I couldn't tell my mum.
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I've now come off the pill without telling my boyfriend .
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And what kind of relationship can you have, if you daren't even tell your boyfriend you're on a period?
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We aren't going to tell your new boyfriend anything.
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You should really think twice before approaching this woman or before telling your boyfriend .
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My counsellor pushed me, though, to talk to some one, so I tried to tell my boyfriend .
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As she had told no one except her boyfriend that she was pregnant, it came as a shock to her family.
try
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Alison says the poltergeist has tried to smother her boyfriend in their terraced house.
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My counsellor pushed me, though, to talk to some one, so I tried to tell my boyfriend .
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Prosecutor Neil Tyrell said Mitchell struck her when she tried to pull her boyfriend away from him.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
live-in lover/boyfriend etc
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She had a live-in boyfriend to whom she devoted most of her time and energy.
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She met her live-in boyfriend on-line.
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She took no new live-in lover, and as far as she was aware, neither did Charles.
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Two divorces, a long string of live-in boyfriends.
steady boyfriend/girlfriend
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In any case, life was much too enjoyable to think about steady boyfriends.
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It would have to be with a steady boyfriend.
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Now at 16 Steven has a steady girlfriend of 15, who he has been going out with for several months.
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The first year at university I had a very steady boyfriend who was doing a similar course as me but mechanical engineering.
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Then, he started getting interested in banger-racing and got a steady girlfriend.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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All she does is talk about her boyfriend .
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I was talking to this guy at the bar and he starting asking me whether I was married or had a boyfriend .
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Is he your new boyfriend ?
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Josh was my first boyfriend .
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Sarah's doing well and has a serious boyfriend , Michael, whom she plans to marry next year.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her low-life boyfriend kicks her out, leaving her homeless but still sweet and pregnant.
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If you slept with a boy and he was your boyfriend , it didn't really matter.
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Jackie Cooper also starred as her perplexed boyfriend .
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She could have picked herself a better boyfriend .
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She must have a family, maybe even a boyfriend , all of them frantic, imagining her missing, even drowned.
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So she talks to her boyfriend .
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The car was her and boyfriend Robert; s pride and joy.
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You and your boyfriend have a wonderful time.